High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in HashBrown CMS before 1.3.2. Server/Entity/Resource/Connection.js allows an attacker to reach a parent directory via a crafted name or ID field.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-5840
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in HashBrown CMS before 1.3.2. Server/Entity/Resource/Connection.js allows an attacker to reach a parent directory via a crafted name or ID field.
osv:CVE-2020-5840
Complete source record
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